My company (http://www.avvenu.com/) is preparing to release the next major version of our product, and we are now in public beta. I encourage anyone reading this to give it a try; it's free, useful, and if you participate in the beta program and answer a survey at the end, you'll get a one-year subscription to the Pro-level service for free.

Avvenu is a two-headed product: You can access your own files--stored on your home or office PCs--from anywhere you happen to be, via laptop, cellphone, or connected PDA. You can also share (on an individual basis; this is not Kazaa-style P2P file sharing) any file or directory with anyone, while keeping tight control over what is shared, to whom, and for how long.

With the Pro-level service, you don't even need to leave your computer to share your files; we will keep them available for as long as you want after you turn off your computer.

You don't need a Web or ftp server, just a broadband connection and Windows XP SP2. There is no Mac OS version of the client at this time, but Mac users can receive shares and remotely access PCs through the Web interface. That Web interface, by the way, works on Opera and Firefox as well as Internet Explorer.

Join the beta program here: http://www.avvenu.com/r2beta/

Email support (betatest-support@avvenu.com) is available for beta testers, and I'll be happy to answer questions in this thread.

Interesting. I might give it a try, but I do have some security concerns installing it at the office. Does it give you access to all of your files, or only files located in a particular directory, say a shared directory?

Interesting. I might give it a try, but I do have some security concerns installing it at the office. Does it give you access to all of your files, or only files located in a particular directory, say a shared directory?
You have access to everything on your computer(s) (the machine(s) on which you install the client). Your share recipients are limited to only the files or directories you specify when you create the share.

All connections are secured with SSL (https) and your password is encrypted and never transmitted in cleartext.

I'll definitely give this a try. I have pre-ordered one of the new Windows-XP based Ultra-Mobile PCs (Microsoft's "Origami" project) from TabletKiosk (http://www.tabletkiosk.com/config/pc/viewCat_P.asp?idCategory=35), which they say will be delivered next week. I could see this as a very useful tool for accessing files from my home system using the UMPC.

-Jeff

[shameless plug] After several months of work, we've now released version 2 of Avvenu (http://www.avvenu.com/)! It's completely free for the basic service, so I urge everyone to go give it a try.

If you participated in the Beta program, you should soon be receiving a survey (if you haven't already). Be sure to complete that to get your year of "Plus" service.

And again and as always, I'll be happy to answer any questions about the service here.[/shameless plug]

Congratulations on the launch, Andrew!

-Jeff